Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Saved a Girl From Drowning. [ARTICLE]

Saved a Girl From Drowning.

Miss Katherine S. Gelling has just been awarded a testimonial by the Royal Humane Society. She is only 16 years of age, but while she was bathing on the coast of the Isle of Man last summer she saved a life under particularly difficult circumstances. She saw another young girl, Ellen Powell, out of her .depth, and sinking. Miss Gelling was at this moment burdened with a child she was teaching to swim. She could not desert her little pupil, and so she swam, carrying her on her back, to the drowning girl’s assistance, and managed by great efforts to get them both to shore.